Lamarche

name

The verdict

“Lamarche” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,000
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-lamarche · Lamarche · French

Lamarche · rank #48,000 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #48,000
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH Lafitte

Nearest frequency peer: Lafitte (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lamarche »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Lamarche » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Lamarche vs Lamarck
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Lamarche
PropertyValue
HeadwordLamarche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#48,000
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Lamarche »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Lamarchese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Lafitte » (#47,999), « Labrune » (#47,998), « labellisée » (#47,997). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « Lamarche » est au #48,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around Lamarche, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,000 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Lamarche, with forms such as "almarche", "laamrche", and "lamacrhe". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Lamarck", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Lamarche, spelled L-A-M-A-R-C-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Lamarche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Si David La Rue et Béatrice Lamarche avaient vu leurs chances disparaître en raison de l’annulation des Essais olympiques du 27 au 31 décembre à Québec en raison de la COVID-19, Alex Boisvert-Lacroix, lui, croyait toujours en ses chances de vivre ses deuxièmes Jeux olympiques, comme il nous l’avait mentionné dans notre édition du 23 décembre.
  2. Gérard Lamarche confie que GBL lorgnait sur SGS depuis au moins quatre ans.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • almarche
  • laamrche
  • lamacrhe
  • lamarcche
  • lamarceh
  • lamarchhe
  • lamarhce
  • lamarrche
  • lammarche
  • lamrache
  • llamarche
  • lmaarche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Lamarche - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

almarche2laamrche2lamacrhe2lamarcche1lamarceh2lamarchhe1lamarhce2lamarrche1
Edit distance from "Lamarche"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Lamarche"?
"Lamarche" is spelled L-A-M-A-R-C-H-E.
What does "Lamarche" mean?
As a proper noun, "Lamarche" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Lamarche"?
"Lamarche" is commonly confused with "Lamarck". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Lamarche" come from?
"Lamarche" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Lamarche", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list